Colonial United States Quotes

#1. For similar folly, our own country, in the transition from the colonial period, also paid a fearful price; and from a like catastrophe the United States has been twice saved in our time by the arguments formulated by Turgot.

Andrew Dickson White

#2. It's sweet that I don't have to do my laundry.

Adam Levine

#3. Gentlemen lacking substantial sympathy with their leader found it to be comfortable to deceive themselves, and raise their hearts at the same time by the easy enthusiasm of noise.

Anthony Trollope

#4. New Englanders began the Revolution not to institute reforms and changes in the order of things, but to save the institutions and customs that already had become old and venerable with them; and were new only to a few stupid Englishmen a hundred and fifty years behind the times.

Edward Pearson Pressey

#5. Those who have it stick with what brings it.

Craig Groeschel

#6. Antoine, you have a phone call." Chef Fanelli

Christy Barritt

#7. I have long argued that, if China and the United States were interested in pursuing a strategic partnership, Africa is the best place to start, as neither enters the situation with past colonial baggage, and both possess interests that are quite complementary.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

#8. We have been gradually finding out that there is more democracy in letting a committee or representative ten to details than in making everybody's business nobody's business.

Edward Pearson Pressey

#9. I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.

Walter Annenberg

#10. I want to take you to a place of pure magic ... It's the place athletes call the "zone". Buddhists call "satori" and ravers call "trance". I call it the Silver Desert. It's a place of pure light that holds the dark within it. It's a place of pure rhythm.

Gabrielle Roth

#11. It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even more succesfull than ourselves

Slavoj Zizek

#12. Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.

S.D. Gordon

#13. All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies is the United States of America.

Nikita Khrushchev

#14. It was an early saying here [Massachusetts] that there were 'Roots enough to plant Hampshire County and Gunns enough to defend them.

Edward Pearson Pressey

#15. The Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#16. I've learned to do a movie and then not be in that place for a long time.

Kirsten Dunst

#17. As children of God, one of the privileges we have is believing the impossible.

Joyce Meyer

#18. Fantasy is the tendency of Americans, going back to colonial times, to look at the Middle East as a type of fractured mirror of the United States - a type of mirror that could look a lot more like the United States, if, say, a Middle Eastern George Washington would emerge.

Michael Oren

#19. So now, when I look back, all I see is who we used to be and who we are now. And I wonder how anybody can recognize anyone at all.

Susan Pogorzelski

#20. The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid.

George R R Martin

#21. One of the great disappointments of our time has been that the United States, a beacon of hope during the freedom struggles of the Asian peoples, succumbed to the views and greater colonial experience of nations grown to power in an earlier period.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

#22. The definition of strong leadership is not about making decisions that are popular. Making popular decisions is easy - you don't need to be a leader to do that. The definition of strong leadership is to make decisions that are unpopular, but are nevertheless sound.

Henry Blodget